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my MRS Agra Fl forest lumbering and recreation Mansell said land use posals plan future use of the area while the study is made public access ing is prohibited PRESERVE WILDERNESS as wilderness area from traffic the eightmember Resources planning team met Thursday to review ministry studies on the area and to make recommendations for future The planning team wants to restrict certain recreational To be sentenced Sept 13 sificoe COUNTY FOREST nu or new tutum hymn Meetings with local politicans and residents are part of the preparations of fiveyear master plan for the Copeland Forest Resource Management Ministry prepares plan for Copeland forest By STEPHEN NICHOLLS Of The Examiner Ministry of natural resources officials in January will pre sent to local residents proposals for future recreation and land use activities in Copeland Forest Resource Manage ment Area 16 km north of Barrie Meetings with local politicians and residents are part of the preparation of fiveyear master plan for the 4400acre Dan Mansell Huronia District manager said the plan should be completed in two years During those two years the ministry will protect the wilderness area but will permit activities such as trapping Copeland Forest MORE INFORMATION NEEDED Team members called for additional information on ar cheology botany and proposed educaton centre That in formation is to be ready when the team meets again in early December to prepare public report on master plan pro The Ontario government bought Copeland Forest in December 1978 Ministry officials said they wanted to pro tect the wilderness tract from urban development study team consisting of ministry staff and John Copeland who previously owned the land was established to Mansell team chairman said the government has given ministry officials restricted control over Copeland Forest Those exemptions under the Environmental Assessment Act permit the ministry to protect the forest by controlling No motor vehicles are allowed in Copeland Forest Per sons may hike or fish there during daylight hours but camp Mansell said the team wants to preserve Copeland Forest Development of the are will probably be restricted to trails picnic areas and parking lots for vehicles which will be banned from the wilderness area Copeland Forest has little historical or archeological im portance but there are several rare plant species there said Mansell Sensitive portions of the forest need protection Area to km north of Barrie The plan should be completed in two years says Dan Mansell Huronia District manager Examiner Photo activities it thinks may harm the forest lt recommends tubing and toboganning be prohibited because hills there have little surface cover and would easi ly be eroded by these activities Snowmobiling would be limited to single linkage trail joining routes bordering on the forest BAN VEHICLES Trail bikes and other motorized vehicles would be banned because they create noise disturbance that is not consis tent with wilderness experience and they could cause ero sion problems in the sandy soil said Mansell Crosscountry skiing and hiking would be permitted Two businesses now rent portions of the forest for cross country ski courses This practice would be continued because the businesses maintain the trails and the ministry profits from the rent For the next two years the ministry will continue to rent the trail areas to these businesses In future however the lands would be offered for rent to any commercial operator who is the highest bidder he said Timber and trapping rights would also be tendered out assuming those activities do not interfere with other uses said Mansell Ministry officials are considering the construction of an outdoor education centre on the property Such centre might be used for environmental studies by Simcoe County students special committee will look into the need and feasiblity of study centre Ministry staff will work with county school boards and the Ontario Association of Environmental Education in investigating the idea OPEN HOUSE After the public report is prepared ministry staff will pre sent it to Medonte Township Council They will then hold an open house in January to talk to interested persons about the proposals Mansell said the recommendations are intended as guidelines and may be changed if the public disagrees The planning team will combine the public reaction with its own ideas and will draw up preliminary draft master plan Mansell hopes that plan will be ready by January 1981 to present to the public The publics comments would be included in the final plan which would then go to higher officials in the environment and natural resources ministries for approval The plan should be implemented in 1982 How much work would be done then would depend on budgeting said Mansell Man pleads guilty to stabbing 25yearold Toronto house painter pleaded guilty Friday to stabbing 21yearold Midland man during fight there May 25 Clarence Nelson Stacey con victed of wounding will be sentenced Sept 13 in Ontario Supreme Court in Barrie Stacey pleaded not guilty to charge of attempted murder He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of wounding Mr Justice Lerner ac cepted that plea saying there was not enough evidence to in dicate Stacey was trying to kill Gregory Noble when he stabbed him Both men were among eight persons attending party in an apartment building in Midland that night John Murphy crown at torney said the persons were drinking and at least some of them were taking drugs During that party Stacey challenged Noble to fight As they were leaving another man grabbed Noble and the two men started fighting Stacey intervened stabbing Noble in the chest and thigh Noble was taken to Midlands hospital and later was treated in Toronto hospital Midland Police Constable John Quaife testified he ar rested Stacy about four hours after the incident Constable Quaie said Stacey had been drinking but did not appear in toxicated Gordon Goldman defence lawyer suggested Noble is large and Staceys friend who fought with Noble was getting the worst of it Goldman said he believed his client was try ing to help his friend In discussing sentencing Murphy said the violent nature of the stabbing deserves penitentiary sentence He said Stacey should be given at least twoyear sentence to show the courts will not tolerate violence Goldman said his client has not past record of violence He was convicted of break enter New bus route Gard Levett the bus driver waits at the embarkation point at Broadmoor and Little for his first passengers Friday in Barrie The service goes through the industrial area in Welham Park Examiner Photo and theft and being unlawfully in dwelling house in 1971 He was also convicted of fail ing to comply with probation order In 1972 he was fined $100 for public mischief Other charges include failing to appear fail ing to attend court driving while disqualified and posses sion of narcotic Goldman said Stacey has committed no violent crimes in the past and he has been well behaved during the six years he has been married The stabbing was in the heat of the moment said Goldman Goldman said penitentiary sentence would be completely inappropriate He suggested oneyear jail sentence Memoria The Ontario Court of Appeal has denied divorced couple joint custody of their children the second ruling this year against the concept that allows estranged parents to share equally the raising of their children The court ruled Thursday that appliance salesman Peter Herbert Kruger 40 of Barrie could not have joint custody of his two children Stacey Anne 11 and Mark because his estranged wife Judith 34 is opposed to such an arrange ment Mrs Kruger community college office worker won sole custody of the children at trial 17 months ago Two appeal court judges said that although both of the Krugers are excellent parents Divorced Barrie couple Custody re joint custody by its very nature is not something that can be imposed by court if either parent is opposed to it However Madam Justice Bertha Wilson dissented declaring she would grant joint custody to both parents because it would be in their childrens best interests It is important in custody STORE tiles writ to stop course test By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner Counsel for the Simcoe Tax payers Organization Resear ching Education STORE filed writ Friday in an attempt to prevent the board of education from introducing the human relations program in Simcoe County schools The organization of citizens which claims membership of 2000 countywide will seek an interim injunction to prevent the continuation of fieldtesting until the case goes to trial By NANCY FIGUEROA Of The Examiner Four of five recommenda tions for the Simcoe Rescue Squads operations while in In nisfil Township wont be any problem The fifth recommen dation however will be discussed said squad spokesman Friday Innisfil Fire Chief Doug Rose called for strong ground rules for the squads opera tions in the township He recommended the police and fire departments be noti fied of all township calls re questing the squads assis tance and be notified who re quested help Chris Chapman squad spokesman said on many occa sions it is the police or fire department that requests the squads assistance Another recommendation for the squad to file written report with details including time of the call arrival time equipment used and the numberof men at the scene wouldnt be any problem said Chapman The squad always completes report each time their ser vices are required he said That report could be photo copied and given to the police and fire departments he add ed The squad would also adhere to the fourth recommendation that when in attendance with the fire department the squad must take their orders from he fire chief or senior officer in charge An accident is the wrong place to have any type of con flict said Chapman The fifth recommendation does not rest well with the squad It says that no member of the squad interfere service planned for church By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner Oro Township will hold special memorial service Sun day at the Colored African Episcopal Methodist Church just west of Edgar on Conces sion to celebrate the churchs 130th anniversary The service will begin at 230 pm and members of the public are invited to attend said 0ro Reeve Howard Campbell The service will include per formances by the Oro Senior Citizens Choir and an address will be given by Wilson Brooks member of the Black History Society of Canada Reeve Campbell said The sermon will be delivered by Rev Eustace Meade of The First Baptist Church of Toron to the citys oldest black church he said The Colored African Episcopal Methodist Church was built in 1849 by the first black settlers in On Township who arrived some 20 years earlier LEGEND Legend has it that the black settlers were escaped slaves from the United States but this is not accurate says local historian Allan Fisher who has researched the history of the townships black settlers The black settlers who arriv ed in Oro between 1820 and 1825 were actually veterans of the 1812 War who fought onthe side of the British against the Americans at the Battle of Queenston Heights near Niagara Falls he said Fisher said 15 black veterans wer given tickets of location for settlement in the township by then LieutenantGovernor Peregrine Maitland They settl ed along Wilberforce Street named after English aboli tionist William Wilberforce between Concession and Con cession It was the only case of the government settling blacks in the whole history of Upper Canada Fisher said If any escaped slaves did come in they drifted in becaue of the settle ment Fisher said there are current ly no descendants of the original black settlers living in Cm Township The last escendant James Dixon Thompson died in 1949 sometime next spring says David Aiken an assistant to lawyer Marshall Green Aiken said Friday date for ruling on the request for tem ggrary injunction would likely set Monday An Ontario Supreme Court judge will rule of the request on the basis of an affidavit filed by Green and the Simcoe County Board of Educations lawyer John Cockburn Green will attempt to show that the board has not acknowledged the right of Innisfil rules for squad calls not problem with or attend any accident scene once the fire department operations have started unless asked to do so by the officer in charge of operation That one think we will have to work out said Chap man Innisfil is the only township to recommend any ground rules for the squads operations said Chapman meeting will be scheduled between the fire chief and the squad to further discuss the squads operation in the township STOREs membership to ap prove the program CANCEL STORE wants the program cancelled because it is not Christianbased The human relations program has been ap proved in principle by the board The organization also objects to the board designing and implementing program that it says imparts value to children Establishing value system is parents job not the job of the state it says Should the request for an in terim injunction be denied the case would still go to court but fieldtesting would continue un til the trial Aiken said During meeting August 22 the school board decided to con tinue fieldtesting as soon as recently made revisions in the program were approved by trustees In June fullimplementation of the program initially scheduled for the fall was postoned indefinitely The board maintains the pro gram which deals with the emotional and sexual relation ships between humans will help the child cope with changing world and improve his ability to communicate ef fectively STOREs attempt to have the program cancelled amounts to censorship board lawyer Cockburn said following the August meeting Their demand strikes at the very root of the democratic pro cess and could destroy the pro cess of curriculum presentation in the province he said Dump truck driver hurt after accident in The driver of dump truck is in satisfactory condition in Royal Victoria Hospital today following an accident on In nisfil Con Friday night Innisfil police report the truck driven by Peter Costey of Stroud was headed eastbound on Con oneanda half miles west of Highway 11 hen he lost control of the vehi It went into the south ditch then into the north ditch before rolling over twoandonehalf times Costey was taken to hospital with shoulder and rib injuries Damage to the truck estimated at $6000 is the examiner Saturday Sept 1m cases that the courts avoid tur ning one of the parents into visitor resulting in the child feeling rejected and guilty over the marriage breakup the judge said SHARED CHILDREN During the two years between their separation and divorce custody case in March 1978 the Krugers shared their children equally The father had the children Tuesday and Thursday even ings and all day Sunday The mother had them Wednesday and Friday evenings and Satur day They would alternate on Mon day nights and the children stayed overnight at whichever parents place they had spent the evening Uest rejected At the trial in Barrie each parent sought sole custody of the children but conceded the other was good and loving parent and should have access to the children Mr Justice Donald Thorson who wrote the appeal courts majority decision noted that joint custody was touched on only briefly by the trial judge in his reasons for granting custody of the children to Mrs Kruger with reasonable and liberal access to the children by their father It Was only after Kruger lost custody of his children at trial that he sought joint custody order from the appeal court Thorson noted and at the ap peal hearing Mrs Kruger op posed joint custody Ruby Kell is lnnistils Citizen of the Year Award surprises Churchill CHURCHILL Surprised is the way Ruby Kell describes her reaction to being named In nisfils citizen of the year Mrs Kell of Churchill is president of the Stroud Senior Citizens Shes served with the South Simcoe Womens In stitute and the Gilford Womens Institute is President and secretary of the Gilford United Church Women is 4H club leader and was the first female member of the Innisfil Township school board When asked why she is such involvedUttzen Mrs Kell says Because no one else would Its terrible job getting people to take offices DOESNT KNOW She doesnt know why its so difficult for some people to get involved They say they cant do it but there isnt any reason why anyone couldnt do as good job as me or better says Mrs Kell woman As Womens Institute member Mrs Kell says the in stitute will remain in the area for many years We have far more young women than old she says The newer women are quite enthusiastic Mrs Kell and her husband Robert celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Sept 29 That is also the day Mrs Kell will be presented with her award from the Chamber of Commerce Its going to be busy day she says ENJOYS PEOPLE Even with her award however Mrs Kell still con siders the town she grew up in Port Elgin as home She says however she likes Innisfil township really enjoy the people she says Mrs Kell was nominated Citizen of the Year by Mrs Myrtle Sawyer Mrs Sherman Todd and Mrs Jean Hand last years Citizen of the Year Air cadets begin training on Sept 10 The Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron 102 starts an nual training Sept 10 at pm at the Barrie Armoury Citizenship physical fitness and an awareness of aviation exploits and technology are the key areas of concentration in cadet training which is open to boys and girls aged 13 to 18 The local squadron under the direction of regular and reserve members of the Royal Cana dian Armed Forces offers in struction in leadership citizen ship military drill theory of flight navigation aircraft engines airframes airforce history and customs photo graphy first aid and rifle range training Other activities include special parades visits to local e5 33 Jaycees left and Tony industrial and cultural establishments in the Simcoe CountyToronto area beginn ing with trip to Canadian Forces Base Trenton to see the air show and armed forces display The cadets may also have the opportunity to fly in military aircraft try glider flying over night camping and adventure Coloring book project Gord Carruthers vicepresident of the Barrie Dawson committee chair man receive cash from Tim Adair manager of the MacDonald hamb urger outlet on Baylield Street Thursday watched by Jim Fraser far right also vicepresident of the Jaycees The training at CFB Borden Sum mer camp training is offered to qualified cadets and senior cadets are often sent on paid extended summer training courses Anyone interested in joining the squadron is invited to the Armoury any Monday evening between and 10 pm or may call 7260588 amount of $398 covered the price of the new coi oring book being sold the YearoftheChild by the Jaycees to support project MacDonalds will help by allowing books to be sold in the restaurant on Bayfield Street on Dec Those wishing to support this cause may phone Jim Fraser at 726641 Examiner Photo